flame color
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of flame color
First recorded in 1600–10
Example Sentences
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The rainbow flame demonstration teaches a concept central to the curriculum of high school chemistry: that certain metals, when burned, produce a flame color that is characteristic to its chemical makeup.
From Washington Post • Nov. 5, 2015
A great head appeared, with eyes and mouth—yes! and nose, too—all a glaring flame color.
From The Tale of Solomon Owl by Bailey, Arthur Scott
After a certain time they agreed to one thing: her dress should be flame color.
From The Argonauts by Curtin, Jeremiah
Running to the window, she saw darting through the trees birds of such a brilliant flame color that they seemed direct from the tropics, and their notes were almost as varied as their colors.
From Nature's Serial Story by Roe, Edward Payson
With her pearly sails and the line of flame color beneath, she looked a dwindling cloud; a little while, and she would be claimed of the distance and the dusk.
From To Have and to Hold by Johnston, Mary
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